Once a day or every other day.or every three days..when ever I feel the butterflies .
having your period will make you anxious therefore the citroloperam will take longer to work
Hello, just found an amazing meditation on insight timer, called Loving and listening to yourself. I felt really good afterwards, only 12 mins.
I went from happy and feeling normal to unbearable anxious overnight. I've never been depressed I never would of guess when this started that 3 months later I'd still feel awful.
It's certainly an eye opener. What really unnerves you is that you feel okay, then you go backwards. That's really scary, how can that happen. The small amount of confidence you gained after a few days, disappears immediately. Was sat at my desk last week, feeling good, then I could just feel it slipping away, and felt down for the rest of the day. No apparent reason for it. I'm on week 8, and I don't seem to get down any more. However, very anxious instead, until it releases in the afternoon. I think anxiety is a good indication that cit is working though, which is what I'm hanging on to. It's easy to think of the anxiety being the same as being depressed, as you are still worrying about things. If you think about how you feel now, and at the start, although anxiety is very intense and worrying, it's not so bad as being depressed and feeling hopeless. From what i can gather on here, it's a case of waiting for 12 weeks since starting or upping the dose, to make any decisions. All the best.
Hi guys. Did anyone recover from this as I am at this stage and I just canāt get through my days.
Hi-
Iām currently on week 11 at 20mg. I will say I have gone through virtually everything that has been mentioned in this thread. The increased anxiety, the ear pressure/ringing, the flat and hopeless feelings, etc. this is the second time I have been on Citalopram. The first time I went on 20mg and stayed on it for 3-4 years and was better than I have ever been. It was a miracle drug. The only reason I stopped was because I felt so good, I didnāt think I needed them anymore. I was wrong. This go around it has been much harder and seems to take much longer to kick in.
That being said, I do feel things are progressing well. Slow but well. Over the past week or so, my overall days have definitely been better. Iām finding Iām able to enjoy things more and more. Iāve returned to work after being off for 2 months and aM doing well with that. These meds take so long to work and most people quit or increase the dose too quick in my opinion because we feel itās not working. The ups and downs are part of the process. It takes much longer than 6 weeks to become yourself again. You may start seeing improvements in this time but unless you are lucky, they will be small.
I believe it takes longer as well because we have to be able to distance ourselves from the original event. We have to learn how to cope/function again all the while our brains our being reworked by the medication. Itās a very hard process but is just that, a process. I am light years better than I was 2 months ago but not 100% back to normal yet at 11 weeks and thatās ok. In a few more months I believe I will be back to myself and will look back knowing I never want to go through this again.
Hang in there and good luck!
Hey! I hope this gets to you! How long was it until you started feeling better? Did you have intrusive thoughts, depressed anxious just see no way out at all? X
I found i improved a lot but then after 6 months it tapered off and the GP could not increase my dose for certain reasons. So in our area I registered for Health in Mind which is CBT therapy. I went to it face to face and hour a week for around 12 weeks. I have now done several seasons of these as I found them absolutely life changing over time. You need to work at it and develop an awareness of the thoughts going on in your head so you can address them. I suffered with anxiety and depression for years until I found CBT. They also give you practical things to try like breathing techniques, which I found I needed to practice while not anxious so they would be effective when I was anxious. One of my best practical tips for easing anxiety is to squeeze my left hand. I squeeze my tight hand when depressed. It affects the right or left side of your brain and lowers or increases energy so to speak, depression is low energy while anxiety is high energy, we want to be in the middle. I hardly get anxious now days as I journal daily and review my truths that replace lies in my head.